When most people hear the name Jim Henson they immediately associate it with The Muppets and Sesame Street.
Jim Henson started out with his unique puppets on a local TV station, graduated to the Ed Sullivan Show and The Jimmy Dean Show and then garnered worldwide attention with Sesame Street.
Who can forget Kermit The Frog, The Count, Oscar The Grouch, Bert and Ernie, The Cookie Monster and the other Muppet citizens of Sesame Street?
As popular as The Muppets were Jim had bigger aspirations for his puppets, including movies.
At first he brought his Muppets such as Kermit and Miss Piggy to the big screen. After that he became daring in his utilization of cutting edge puppetry with such movies as The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.
He would go on to create puppets for TV shows, movies and more.
His Creature Shop incorporated the latest state of the art remote controls, figure articulation and outrageous designs and costumes.
In The Inside Story Of Jim Henson's Creature Shop No Strings Attached book, by Matt Bacon from Chronicle Books, with a foreword by Jim’s son Brian, readers are witness to the progression of puppetry by the Creature Shop over several decades.
Learn all about the clever mechanics and designs of each of the revolutionary puppets. Discover the ingenuity and genius behind each as well as the various daring projects the Creature Shop staff took on.
It’s an oversize hardbound book bulging with photos, engrossing text and a peek behind the scenes on how it was all done.
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